From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 22 21:54:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA16402 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA16397 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:54:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06372; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:53:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:53:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Lance Murphy cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel In-Reply-To: <199709221942.MAA12861@smtp.abac.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Lance Murphy wrote: > Problems with kernel. I get this errror messgae > text=0x120000 Error : C:1031 > 1023 Bios Limit > If I use the kernel.save it works fine. If I compile a new kernel I get this > message. If a copy kernel.save and > rename it kernel I get the same message. Please help Your root partition is sitting on the 1023 cylinder boot limit. By chance, the clusters for kernel.save are below the limit but the ones for kernel aren't, so you're stuck using kernel.save until you can reformat & repartition to make sure the root partition is below the 1024th cylinder, which is about 500mb in. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo